A professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a five-year, $500,000 federal grant to study privacy and accountability in computer database systems, writes Network World’s Jon Brodkin.
Computer systems establish accountability by preserving a history of activities and data, allowing past events to be analyzed for data breaches, but retaining these histories can sometimes pose a serious threat to privacy, Gerome A. Miklau, an assistant professor of computer science, says in a news release.
Jon Brodkin, jbrodkin@nww.com
